11" Oyster Encaustic #6 by Theresa Stirling

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Available from Watson Kennedy when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Pacific Northwest based encaustic artist Theresa Stirling creates dreamy one of a kind works. Her textural and atmospheric pieces on solid wood of layer upon layer of colored beeswax look amazing hung or propped up in a bookcase. Just one is beautiful, and collection looks incredible when grouped together. Her process is an honest one, with honest materials. Slowly heating beeswax and pure pigments; layering brushstrokes of hot wax over birch panel, then firing it. It is primal, mesmerizing, anc